"I think the greatest illusion we have is……" — Eve Ensler
"I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us."
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69 Quotes by Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler has 69 quotes on this site.
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I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from…
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Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I…
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I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.
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Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.
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Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.
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The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.
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Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are…
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Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People…
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The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change…
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You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a…
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Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave…
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Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
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I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
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O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful…
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I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
— Robert Browning
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Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on…
— Sholom Aleichem
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Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep.
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk…
— Rodney Dangerfield
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And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.
— Robert Breault
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any…
— Agnes de Mille
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